Dunlap v. Brooks
Dunlap v. Brooks
Opinion of the Court
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§ 358. Trial by jury; right to. At the July term, 1886, of the trial court, appellant, the defendant, waived a trial by jury, and a trial of the cause by the judge resulted in a judgment against him, from which he appealed to this court, and this court reversed the judgment and remanded the cause. In the trial court, at the April term, 1887, he demanded a jury and paid the jury fee, and the cause was continued. At the July term, 1887, the cause coming on for trial, he demanded a trial by jury, which demand the court refused upon the ground that he had waived a jury on the first trial of the cause. Held error to refuse the trial by jury. The statute provides that c< any party to a civil suit in the district or county court desiring to have the same tried by a jury shall make application therefor in open court on the first day of the term of court at which the suit is tried,” etc. [R. S. art. 3061.] ' Such application was made by appellant, and the jury fee had been paid by him at a previous term. The effect of the reversal by this court of the first judgment was to remand the cause for trial as though no previous trial had been had. “ If at a preceding term of the court a jury has been waived or demanded, that fact should not control the right, in the discretion of the party, to demand at a succeeding term a trial by jury which had before been waived, or to waive such trial which had before been demanded.” [Brown v. Cheneworth, 51 Tex. 460; Dean v. Sweeny, id. 242.]
§ 359. Conclusions of fact and km; failure of judge to file; demand for, must be made. When a judge fails to state his conclusions of fact and law upon proper and timely demand therefor, and such failure is presented by proper bill of exception, and there is not a full statement of facts in the record, and it is not apparent that such failure was without injury to the complaining party, the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded for .another trial. [Callaghan v. Grant, 66 Tex. 239; 2 App.
Reversed and remanded.
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